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Definition: EASTING |
EASTINGNoun1. The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel. |
Date "EASTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Eastward(that is from left to right)reading of grid values on a map. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | Eastward (that is from left to right) reading of grid values on a map. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: EASTING |
| English words defined with "EASTING": Meridional distance. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
73 battle easting | 5 |
73 easting | 4 |
easting northing | 4 |
easting false | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EASTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lëvizje drejt lindjes, kurs drejt lindjes. (various references) | |
Arabic | بإتجاه الشرق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | курс към изток. (various references) | |
Danish | forandret østlængde. (various references) | |
French | en direction de l'est (eastbound), vers l'est (easterly, eastward). (various references) | |
Hungarian | keleti irányú haladás, keleti irány. (various references) | |
Manx | shiar-linney, arraghey my hiar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eastingay.(various references) | |
Romanian | rutã esticã, cursã spre est. (various references) | |
Russian | курс на ост. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plovidba na istok. (various references) | |
Spanish | dirección del este. (various references) | |
Turkish | doğuya doğru yönelme. (various references) | |
Ukranian | рух на схід. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EASTING": eastings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "EASTING": breasting, feasting, outfeasting, yeasting. (additional references) | |
Words containing "EASTING": beastings. (additional references) | |
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"EASTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: easain, easeing, Eastan, Eastaugh, Eastend, eastings, Eastney, elastan, Estaing, Estang, esting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "EASTING" (pronounced 'East"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, Derdoing, Dilluing, Dooring, Drearing, During, Elamping, Electro-engraving, Electro-etching, Electro-gilding, Emprising, Enchafing, Enerlasting, Eploring, Everduring, Everlasting, Everliving, Fairing, Falding, Fellow-feeling, firing, Flating, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, Grinting, grooving, Guilding, Holing, Horning, Hosting, Ill-boding, Imbenching, Impleasing, Impriming, Incanting, Inconcerning, Inconcluding, Inconsisting, Incorresponding, Infausting, Intercoming, interworking, Inunderstanding, Lamping, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding, Noncondensing, Nonconducting, Nonconforming, Nonimporting, Nonresisting, Nonsparing, Nooning, Northing, Occulting, Offing, Ounding, Outing, Outstanding, Overbearing, Overcarking, Overknowing, Overlashing, Overpraising, Overtrading, Phasing, Plaiding, Pontooning, Priesting, Randing, Rebiting, Redoubting, Reeding, Rinking, Ruching, Safe-keeping, Sarking, Sea-roving, Seining, Self-abasing, self-acting, Self-adjusting, Self-applying, Self-approving, self-asserting, Self-consuming, self-denying, Self-depending, Self-devouring, self-explaining, Self-healing, Self-imparting, Self-knowing, self-moving, Self-neglecting, Self-reproaching, Self-reproving, Shafting, Shamoying, Sheading, Sheeling, Shieling, Shoading, Shroving, Siling, Skylarking, Sleighing, Slicking, sliding, Slocking, Smithing, Snying, Speeching, Speking, Splining, Steading, Steening, Steining, Stenting, Still-closing, Strengthing, stroking, Strouding, Sweeting, Swording, Teaming, Throating, Thurling, Trething, Trysting, Tything, unassuming, unbecoming, Unbeing, unbelieving, Unbeseeming, unblushing, Unconcerning, underlying, Undesigning, undiscerning, undoing, undying, unerring, unfailing, unfeeling, unflinching, unmeaning, Unrecuring, unrelenting, Unseeming, Unsisting, unsparing, unthinking, Unweeting, Unweighing, unwilling, uprising, Waling, Westing, Wicking, Witing, Woning, Woulding, Yachting. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eatings, ingates, ingesta, seating, teasing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ageist, agents, easing, eating, gainst, giants, ingate, ingest, sating, signet, tenias, tineas, tinges, tisane. | |
-2 letters: aegis, agent, agist, angst, anise, antes, antis, entia, etnas, gains, gaits, gates, gents, getas, giant, gnats, inset, nates, neats, neist, nites, saint, satin, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stage, staig, stain, stane, stang, stein, sting, tains, tangs, tenia, tinea, tines, tinge, tings. | |
-3 letters: ages, agin, ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, egis, engs, etas, etna, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gast, gate, gats, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, neat, nest, nets, nite, nits, sage, sain, sane, sang, sate, sati, seat, sent, seta, sign, sine, sing, site, snag, snit, stag, tags, tain, tang, tans, teas, tegs, tens, ties, tine, ting, tins. | |
-4 letters: age, ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eng, ens, eta, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ins, its, nae, nag, net, nit, sae, sag, sat, sea, seg, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tag, tan, tas, tea, teg, ten, tie, tin, tis. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: angriest, antigens, astringe, beatings, eastings, estating, feasting, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gelatins, genitals, gentians, giantess, granites, ingrates, mangiest, mintages, misagent, naggiest, rangiest, sauteing, seatings, sedating, steading, stealing, steaming, sweating, tangiest, tziganes, unitages, vintages, yeasting. | |
+2 letters: absenting, agentings, agentives, agentries, agonistes, alginates, anglesite, antigenes, arresting, assenting, asserting, astringed, astringes, athelings, attesting, basseting, beastings, breasting, caseating, casketing, demasting, desalting, designate, egyptians, emigrants, estraying, fastening, gainliest, galenites, gangliest, ganisters, gannister, gantlines, gauntries, gelatines, gelations, geminates, gestating, gestation, gnarliest, gnathites, gnattiest, gradients, grainiest, gratinees, grievants, hastening, indagates, ingathers, instigate, integrals, jangliest, legations, ligaments, magnesite, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, mastering, misagents, miseating, naethings, navigates, negations, negatives, orangiest, paginates, recasting, repasting, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retasting, safetying, sensating, seriating, serrating, sheathing, signature, slangiest, snaggiest, staginess, steadings, steadying, stealings, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teachings, teaseling, teasingly, trapesing, triangles, twangiest, umangites, unseating, vintagers, waterings. | |
+3 letters: abiogenist, absterging, alignments, amnestying, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, appetising, aragonites, argentines, argentites, asperating, assignment, astringent, autogenies, autosexing, bassetting, besteading, breathings, carpetings, centigrams, chastening, clientages, denigrates, descanting, designated, designates, designator, desolating, destaining, disseating, earthlings, eglantines, enswathing, escalating, escheating, estimating, estivating, estranging, estreating, evangelist, exhausting, fastenings, galantines, gannisters, garnitures, gatherings, gelatinous, gemmations, generalist, germinates, gestations, giantesses, glutamines, granulites, guaranties, gyniatries, harvesting, hesitating, instigated, instigates, integrands, integrates, interstage, isoantigen, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnitudes, manganites, marginates, marketings, metalising, misseating, morganites, naughtiest, nauseating, negativism, negativist, negotiants, negotiates, nightmares, nightshade, originates, panegyrist, parentings, plastering, precasting, prepasting, pretasting, registrant, resaluting, resinating, resonating, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retailings, ringmaster, sauntering, scattering, separating, shattering, sheathings, signalment, signatures, slathering, smartening, smattering, spangliest, spattering, speciating, spectating, staggering, stammering, stampeding, starveling, steamering, stewarding, stingarees, straighten, streakings, streamings, supergiant, tangencies, tangerines, tasselling, teaselling, tetanising, timesaving, tragedians, transgenic, traversing, treasuring, vesicating, vigilantes, wadsetting. | |
+4 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abridgments, advertising, aestivating, afforesting, alightments, allegations, ancestoring, angiotensin, antagonizes, anthologies, antiplagues, arrestingly, assignments, asterisking, astringency, astringents, brigantines, caretakings, cartelising, charmingest, coattesting, decussating, degustation, delegations, denegations, denigrators, derogations, desecrating, desiccating, designating, designation, designative, designators, designatory, despatching, detasseling, devastating, dignitaries, disentangle, elongations, emigrations, empathising, ensheathing, ergotamines, evangelists, everlasting, exsiccating, featherings, festinating, forecasting, foretasting, gadolinites, gallantries, gangsterish, gangsterism, garnierites, garnishment, gelatinizes, geminations, genealogist, generalists, generations, genialities, gentamicins, geobotanies, geobotanist, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, gigantesque, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, greasepaint, haughtiness, heartstring, iceboatings, impregnants, impregnates, inaugurates, ingratiates, insheathing, instigative, intangibles, integrators, interabangs, intergrades, intergrafts, invaginates, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, isoantigens, langoustine, lastingness, legislating, legislation, levigations, ligamentous, lightplanes, linecasting, magnetising, magnetizers, malignities, manifesting, martingales, mastheading, metagenesis, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, misteaching, mistreating, mutagenesis, naughtiness, nearsighted, negativisms, negativists, negotiators, nightshades, nitrogenase, outfeasting, outspeaking, outswearing, overcasting, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, pacesetting, pageantries, palletising, panegyrists, patternings, pedestaling, personating, plaistering, plasterings, postweaning, prestamping, pugnacities, quarterings, readjusting, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, refastening, regimentals, regionalist, registrants, regulations, reinstating, relegations, remastering, resignation, restraining, ringmasters, ringstraked, scatterings, segregating, segregation, sergeanties, signalments, signatories, smatterings, spaghettini, speculating, splattering, springwater, squattering, staginesses, stagnancies, stalemating, starvelings, steelmaking, straightens, straitening, strangering, stranguries, supergiants, tapestrying, teargassing, telecasting, theologians, trailerings, transecting, transfigure, trapnesting, travestying, trespassing, trigeminals, typecasting, unfastening, ungainliest, unsheathing, unsteadying, vaginitides, vegetarians, vegetations, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 41 53 54 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .- ... - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E A S T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0041 0053 0054 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39355354434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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